DUBAI: Got your breath back yet? That was fun. For excitement, for sheer breathless drama, the last two matches of the final day of Euro 2020 group stages will be hard to beat. Germany 2-2 Hungary. Portugal 2-2 France. Group F ended up being many things. The coming together of the reigning World champions and European champions, and the team that any World and European
TAIPEI: Taiwan reported its first domestically transmitted case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus on Saturday, tightening controls in a southern part of the island where the cases have occurred.
Taiwan is battling a cluster of domestic infections, almost all of them due to the previously globally dominant Alpha variant, though numbers are steadying and the outbreak has been comparatively small.
Six people in Pingtung county had been confirmed to have the Delta variant, including two who returned this month from Peru, where they are suspected of bringing the infection from, said Health Minister Chen Shih-chung.
One of them has been classified as a domestic infection, rather than within the family who arrived from Peru.
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More than 48 percent of the country’s population has received at least 1 dose
Updated 25 June 2021
June 25, 2021 04:11
JEDDAH: The Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that residents in the Kingdom above the age of 50 will now be able to receive their second dose of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine after completing more than 40 days from their first dose.
More than 17 million doses have been administered as 48.8 percent of the country’s population has been inoculated with at least one dose.
The Kingdom recorded 1,255 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 479,390.
Most new cases were in the Makkah region with 340, followed by the Eastern Province (282) and Riyadh (203) while Jouf had only six people who tested positive.